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I nod and sit down on htstand Millie watches me for a second I can tell she wants to talk, but she won’t say anything, yet Good I kick off rab my stuff and head to the showers

Today sucked I want to wash it all away The entire day

As I stand in the shower, I let the hot water blast et the o away It’s as if he tattooed his touch onI don’t know if I would have had sex with Peter tonight--going that far, that fast would have been unusual for s would have ended so abruptly, either

I try to shake off the hot and bothered feeling that has ht, and head back to irls are lying on the floor, clutching their stoonna die" Evie says, from her side She’s curled into a ball Her dark hair spills around her head on the floor like a bottle of ink

"I told ya’ll that it was hard! I told you, but no one ever listens toeveryone an I told you so

"So," I interrupt, "on?"

Mille looks at the sorry lot and shakes her head "Tia lasted the longest Nine minutes"

Tia raises her arm in the air and sticks up her thumb

I laugh, "Awesorats to all of you That workout is insane You’re all going to be hunched over like 90-year-olds toh, but it’s quickly followed by a moan of re with her legs folded, hands in her lap "So, where’d you disappear to all night? I thought you would’ve wanted in on this?" Millie has a head of soft blonde curls She pulled the a tank and boxers

I shrug as if it doesn’t matter, but the pressure inside my chest tells me that it does "Nowhere, really I’m sorry I bailed on you"

Millie seems annoyed, but then her shoulders sluiven me "I shouldn’t have made you come"

Tia blurts out, "You took her on another blind date? You must want your ass kicked, Millie" It’s true Everyone else knows better than to ask me by this point in the year

"Jersey Girl won’t kick ot iht No more blind dates Please restrain yourself and don’t set me up with anymore assholes, okay? I can find them all by myself and when I do, I need you to feed me ice crealance down at her in time to see her sit up Her face contorts in pain "What are you, twelve? Big girls get haet hah with theht I have to work the following , so I can skip out early--unha of it

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The nextI arrive at work early I’lish department, since that’s my major The offices are upstairs, away from all the classroo about, wondering where the professors are since the offices are glaringly e with activity, phones ringing and copyThe profs are usually in a rush to make it to their 8:00am classes, but today isn’t like that

Today it’s eerily silent

I walk in and head back to Tadwick’s office There’s no indication that he’s here; no stea co late